Dual Power Kerosene Electric Lamp
| I found a truly hideous table lamp at the dump last week. The bottom half of it combined with this huge #3 burner will make a very nice reading lamp. The burner is quite a nice one and came from Lehman’s a wonderful source for kerosene lamp burners, chimneys and just about anything else you’ll need.
This lamp was built before I had created this website so these are the only pictures I have of the construction process. The components of this lamp are all steel which solders very nicey if you use a good flux but really needs a coat of paint to look good. In this case I used a Krylon gloss black fast drying enamel and intend to add decoration in the form of decals in the British canal boat art “Rose and Castle” style. |
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| Here is the completed table lamp. The base has been painted black and a shade has been added. The shade came from a hanging electric light I picked up at a garage sale for $2.00. We used this lamp when we went camping a couple of weeks ago at a primitive campground in New Hampshire. It cast a very nice warm light that was bright enough to comfortably read by |  |
| This lamp also has a couple of 12 bulbs for use when there is power. I’ll put a switch in the brass collar that supports the shade and then run a cloth covered cord to a suitable connector. |  |
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